Have you guys tried out our awesome new inspiration board builder yet? It lets you pull together various art prints or stationery from our site and see how all the designs look together. It’s really helpful for putting together a wall collage or even just narrowing down your favorites to make a decision easier! It’s not easy to pick just a few Minted designs, when there are so many beauties, am I right?!

This new landing page, pictured above, walks you through how some of our celebrity curators used our boards to create real world displays, as well as how to create boards yourself. So I highly recommend popping over and checking it out… it’s your turn to be the editor! And if enough people ‘like’ your boards, you just might be a famous editor soon enough, earning a spot on our featured boards page.

While all of the art from our art launch was still hanging up in our CEO and founder Mariam’s home, we decided to host a dinner for some key influencers to show off our new art collection. I had a lot of fun putting together the tabletop and thought I’d share my six, easy tips to putting together a really inspiring tabletop.

1. Long tables are awesome. I am just a huge fan of one, big long table whenever possible. Even if it’s so big you are likely having multiple conversations, it still makes everyone feel united to be seated together. And you avoid the ‘A-list’ vs. ‘B-list’ issue entirely.

2. Pick a color and stick to it. Given that our logo is a really pretty green, I decided to stick to green and yet liven things up a bit by working with a few different shades of green.

3. Paper table runners are awesome and affordable. Here I took five sheets of wrapping paper and cut them in half to create a runner the length of the table. Then on the sideboard, I used a whole sheet of paper to do a candle cluster display.

4. Lots of little arrangements are better than one or two big arrangements that you can’t see over. Little vases also make a few flowers go a long way so they’re much easier on the budget. Flowers by the insanely talented Hunt Littlefield.

5. Placecards make everyone think you thought ahead to include them and also help you introduce friends. It’s a lot of fun to matchmake! Plus we have some really cute placecards!

6. Lastly, let your favors be both gifts and decor. I asked Sugar Mama Cookies SF to make cookies with our art print images on them. Using edible image paper, she happily obliged. Here we have Tami Bohn’s Zou Bisou Bisou… I’m personally obsessed with Megan from Mad Men so I love this one!

If you want to try this at home, keep in mind that not only do you need to buy edible image paper, but edible ink for your printer as well. If you’ve ever wondered how supermarkets are able to print cartoons onto cakes… this is how they do it. And here we have Heirloom Pear by Alexandra Stafford.

What was so fun is that we were able to show the three color ways our art prints are offered in. Lucky Girl by Krista Messer would be perfect for any little princess’s room!

We can’t say we’re surprised that our new art collection looks absolutely stunning in the uber-chic home of Victoria Smith, the tour-de-force behind SFGirlByBay.

Don’t those cheerful pillows and that textured blanket look amazing with Special Day Pattern by Pink Hippo Prints? Victoria was one of the guest curator’s of our launch party and to thank her for all of her help, we let her take a few framed pieces home.

All in the Details by Courtney Wilburn really pops on Victoria’s sideboard. We love how she just rested it and didn’t even need to go to the trouble of hanging it. And aren’t those terrariums awesome?

Here is the original wall that Victoria curated at our CEO & founder Mariam Naficy’s home. You can see her inspiration board on our site here.

It’s really fun to see how the pieces look on their own throughout Victoria’s home.

Some Things Take Time by Momo is a great focal point in Victoria’s living room. Ooh, and we love her collection of mini-white vases and frames.

In a Row by Annie Clark looks perfectly lovely above Victoria’s couch. Doesn’t art just look so much better a little bigger?

We were thrilled with the beautiful display the gals over at Ruffled came up with. I think you’ll agree that it’s nothing short of awe inspiring!

Their editors picked Twine from all of our new wedding invitations on offer.

We love how they added touches of black and white to the entire event. It really makes the pink pop!

It was fun to see how they styled our placecards. A note to brides: our talented customer service team is happy to create placecards to match any invites currently sold on the site. Sidenote: Isn’t it amazing how just one or two peonies in a vase creates such an impact?!

Isn’t this gold adorned plate awesome?

I love the juxtaposition of the uppercase narrow type with the calligrapher’s script.

Again, black and white ribbons around flowers and cutlery ties the invites into the tabletop.

I can’t get enough of these flowers!!

And this bride… such a whimsical, light and floaty dress.

Another fun idea from the shoot is tying ribbon around invite suites and thank you notes… such a special DIY touch. Thank you so much to Ruffled for showing us just how inspiring a minted invite can be. Check out all the photos from the shoot here.